Representing Irish Religious Histories

Chapter 1 Towards a Catholic History for a Catholic Nation: The Contribution of Irish Émigré Scholars in Europe, c. 1580– c .1630

Chapter 2 Writing About Eucharistic Belief and Practice Among Historians of Protestantism in Seventeenth-Century Ireland

Chapter 3 Telling the Presbyterian Story in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick

Chapter 4 Laying the Nineteenth-Century Foundations: Contributions from a Catholic and a Protestant Scholar in the 1820s

Chapter 5 Writing Medieval Irish Religious History in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6 William Dool Killen (1806–1902): A Presbyterian Perspective on Irish Ecclesiastical History

Chapter 7 History-Writing, Collective Memory and Identity in an Irish Context: George V. Jourdan and R. Dudley Edwards

Chapter 8 Preaching History, 1749: The Belfast Sermons of Gilbert Kennedy and James Saurin

Chapter 9 Bishop O’Beirne and his Church-Building Programme: The Church of Ireland and Pre-Reformation Christianity

Chapter 10 Negotiating the Middle Ground: Thomas Moore on Religion and Irish Nationalism

Chapter 11 Using the Irish Language to Further the Aims of Bible Societies: An Analysis of Irish Bibles in the Russell Library, Maynooth

Chapter 12 History and Destiny in the Making of the Irish Catholic Spiritual Empire

Chapter 13 Religion as Identity: The Church of Ireland’s 1932 Patrician Celebrations

Chapter 14 ‘Patrick, the First Churchman’ in the Protestant Vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown (1886–1979)

Chapter 15 The 1641 Depositions and the History Classroom

Chapter 16 St Patrick’s Day: Commemoration, Conflict and Conciliation, 1903–2013

Chapter 17 Perceptions of Irish Religious History Among Community Activists in Northern Ireland, 2010–2013

Chapter 18 Reconciling Memories Reconsidered: Reflections on a 1988 Irish Reconciliation Classic in Light of Three Decades of Scholarship and Political Experience